Scissors or shears.

ABSTRACT

19,502. Sayre, T. S. Nov. 3, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901 ]. Scissors and shears are provided with a supplementary cutting-blade sharpened on both edges and adapted to be secured to either blade of the instrument. The supplementary blade 5, Fig. 1, has a hole or an open-ended slot which engages the pivot pin 3, and it may be secured by a countersunk screw 10, Fig. 6, passing into the blade 2 ; or the end of the supplementary blade 5 may project into the blade handle 2&lt;a&gt;, Fig. 1, and be secured thereto by a set-screw 6 ; or the end of the supplementary blade may be provided with a finger 12, Fig. 7, having a T-shaped end with lugs 13, which engage notches 14 in either blade handle as required. The blade 5 is sharpened on both edges by connecting it to the blades 1, 2 successively while they are being sharpened.

PATENTBD dans, 1907.

T. s. sAYRB. scIssoRs 0R sHBARs. APPLICATION FILED NOY- 8, 1906.

UNITEE sTnTEs THOMAS S. SAYRE, OF CAPE MAY, NEW- JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, BY

PATENT oEEIoE.

DIRECT AND MEsNE AssIeN- MENTS, 'IO SAYRE SCISSORS AND SHEARS COMPANY, OF CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, A COR- PORATION OF JERSEY.

SCISSORS OR SHEARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented oet. s, 1907.

Application filed November 3,1906. Serial No. 341,869.

edges have become dull. This object I attain by providing a supplementary cutting blade sharpened on both edges and susceptible of being secured to either blade of the shears, so as to move with the same, said supplementary blade when in either position, present- 1 5 ing a cutting edge for coperation with that of the blade opposed to the one to which it is attached.

In the accompanying drawingzs-Figure l is a side view of a pair of shears provided with one form of supplementary cutting blade in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section on the line a-a, Fig. l; Fig. 3 is a similar view but illustrating the supplementary cutting blade in a position the reverse of that shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is an enlarged transverse section on the line b-b, Fig. l; Fig.

5 is a view similar to Fig. l but illustrating another form of supplementary cutting blade; Fig. 6 is an enlarged section on the line c-c, Fig. 5, but showing the blades of the shears in closer relation to each other than in said figure; Fig. 7 is a side view of a pair of shears illustrating still another form of supplementary cutting blade in accordance with my invention; and

Fig. 8 is a transverse section on the line d-d, Fig. 7.

The shears are constructed in the usual manner, l

and 2 representing the opposite blades of the shears which are pivoted together at 3 and have handles l and 2JL of any desired character. Between the two blades of the shears is interposed a supplementary blade 5, which may simply be perforated for the passage o the pivot pin 3 but which is preferably slotted at the inner end, as shown in Fig. 1, so that it can be slipped over the pivot Without the necessity of removing the latter.

The shears shown in Fig. l have recessed or slotted handle portions for the reception of the inner portion of the blade 5, and the latter can be secured to either blade of the shears by means of a pin, screw, stud, or equivalent fastening engaging openings in the blade and handles, the fastening device shown in the present instance being a thumb screw 6, which passes through openings 7 in the handle and through an opening 9 in the blade, and is threaded for adaptation to an internal thread in one of the openings 7.

The blade 5 is sharpened on both edges, and, when confined to the blade 2, as shown in Fig. 1, its cutting edge x coperates with thecutting edge of the blade 1, as shown in Fig. 2, but, when these cutting edges become dulled through use, the blade 5 can be shifted and secured to the blade l of the shears, in order that its cutting edge y may coperate with the edge of the blade 2 thereby doubling the effective use of the shears without sharpening the same. When it becomes necessary to sharpen the shears the supplementary blade is confined to each of the shear blades in turn while said blades are being sharpened, the sharpening of both the main and supplementary blades being efiected simultaneously and Without any additional trouble or expense.

In the shears shown in Fig. 5 the supplementary blade is secured to the main blade of the shears by means of a set screw l0, whose head is adapted to a reversely countersunk opening in the blade 5, the threaded stem of the screw being adapted to a threaded opening l1 in the main blade, and in the shears shown in Fig. 7 the supplementary blade 5 has a depending finger l2 with T-shaped end terminating in lugs 13, which can be adapted to notches 14 in the handles, in order to secure the supplementary blade to either of the main blades of the shears, each lug 13 being free from engagement with its respective handle when the other lug is in engagement.

I am aware that shears and other cutting implements have been provided with detachable cutting blades, and hence I make no claim for such construction, but

I claim 1. Shears having a reversible supplementary cutting blade sharpened on both edges, and adapted to be secured to either blade of the shears.

2. Shears having a reversible supplementary cutting blade sharpened on both edges and combined with means for securing it to either blade of the shears 3. Shears having a reversible supplementary cutting blade sharpened on both edges and combined with means for securing it to either blade of the shears, said supple:

mentary bladebeing mounted upon the same pivot as the main blades.

4. Shears having a reversible supplementary cutting blade sharpened on both edges, slotted for reception of the pivot pin, and combined with means for securing it to either blade of the shears.

5. Shears having a reversible supplementary cutting blade sharpened on both edges and combined with means for securing it to a handle portion of either blade of the shears.

6. Shears having a reversible supplementary cutting means whereby said supplementary blade can he secured 1n 10 blade sharpened on both edges and slotted for the reception either handle. of the pivot pin, said blade being combined with means In testimony whereof, I have signed my name lo this whereby one leg,` of its slotted portion may be secured to the specification, in the presence of two subsrribin;V witnesses. 5 handle of one blade of the shears and the other leg to the 'handle of the other blade of the shears. THOMAS S. SAYING.

7. Shears having a reversible supplementary cutting Witnesses: blade sharpened on both edges, handles constructed for the ERNEST W. LLOYD,

reception of the inner end of said supplementary blade, and FLOYD C. HUGHES. 

